John Donne : the reformed soul /
Stubbs, John, 1977-,
John Donne : the reformed soul / [print] John Stubbs. - first American edition. - New York : W.W. Norton and Company, (c)2007. - xxvi, 565 pages ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Viking, 2006.
1572-1602 -- The den -- Henry -- Cadiz -- The islands -- Captain Donne -- The secretary -- Lost words -- The rebels -- The member -- The undoing -- 1603-1616 -- Sunrise -- The Close Prison at Michigantcham -- Irregularities -- The apparition -- A valediction to the world -- 1617-1631 -- Stone -- The torn ship -- Clay -- The spouse -- Devotions -- The old player -- The reprimand -- The likeness.
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns on the Bankside to the pulpit of St. Paul's, John Stubbs's biography is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.--From publisher description.
9780393062601
2007061217
PR2248 PR2248.S932.J646 2007
John Donne : the reformed soul / [print] John Stubbs. - first American edition. - New York : W.W. Norton and Company, (c)2007. - xxvi, 565 pages ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Viking, 2006.
1572-1602 -- The den -- Henry -- Cadiz -- The islands -- Captain Donne -- The secretary -- Lost words -- The rebels -- The member -- The undoing -- 1603-1616 -- Sunrise -- The Close Prison at Michigantcham -- Irregularities -- The apparition -- A valediction to the world -- 1617-1631 -- Stone -- The torn ship -- Clay -- The spouse -- Devotions -- The old player -- The reprimand -- The likeness.
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns on the Bankside to the pulpit of St. Paul's, John Stubbs's biography is a vivid portrait of an extraordinary writer and his country at a time of bewildering and cruel transformation.--From publisher description.
9780393062601
2007061217
PR2248 PR2248.S932.J646 2007